Text compresses very well, and usually much faster than the network IO handles data. Example: let's say you have a 100KB/s link. If your main page is 100KB, it takes a second to transfer it. Compressing 100K takes WAY less than 1 sec and decompressing even less than that. Also, in the time you're decompressing you can download the images in parallel, effectively increasing overall browsing speed.
>From the server aspect, CPU is usually cheap. Compressed pages means connections can be ended sooner, which in turn lowers memory requirements and improves response time. So, unless your pages are really small or already compressed, it almost always pays to compress. Not to mention bandwidth cost. The exception is if this is an intranet or localhost deployment. On Apr 27, 9:31 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > There are two issues here: > > 1) yes applications should be zipped. We can support both .tar > and .zip to avoid backward compatibility problems. Has been on my list > of things to do. Perhaps somebody will send me a patch. > > 2) data should (should?) be transmitted zipped by the web server. > cherrpypy's wsgiserver cannot do it but apache does it. It is not > clear that there is a real benefit since it takes time to zip/unzip. > > Massimo > > On 27 Apr, 08:27, AchipA <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I don't know how hard/easy it would be to convince cherrypy to gzip > > content on the http level. It would actually make sense to have that > > option for ALL text content, too, to minimize bandwidth use (this is a > > web server level option, completely transparent to clients, and since > > it relies on headers, it can automatically fall back). > > > On Apr 27, 8:09 am, Álvaro Justen [Turicas] <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > why aren't apps gzipped by default? > > > Ok, all source code is zipped, but if I want to download only one app > > > (from SVN/Bazaar or from appliances) I have to download a big file. An > > > example is examples.tar, that has 7,5MB - examples.tar.gz has only > > > 810kB (less than 11% of the original size). > > > > Some contries don't have super-high-speed Internet connections and I > > > prefer my proccess working on compression/uncompression than my > > > network with full load for a long time. > > > > -- > > > Álvaro Justen > > > Peta5 - Telecomunicações e Software Livre > > > 21 3021-6001 / 9898-0141 > > > http://www.peta5.com.br/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
